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culch

/kʌlt͡ʃ/

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noun sculch · scultch · kulch · cultch

uncountable The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
Maine, US, uncountable An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
Maine, US, uncountable Junk or debris.

adjective sculch · scultch · kulch · cultch

Maine, US, not comparable Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.

verb culches · culching · culched · sculch · scultch

To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.

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@misc{culch_2026,
  title = {culch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/culch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}